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Last week I saw a really interesting Tweet from Adam Eaddy mentioning his blog where he had published a automated way to build Configuration Manager Driver Packages automatically by collecting drivers from a remote PC. The script worked great, but I missed the nice folder structure to keep the drivers nice and ordered. I tweaked his script a bit, so it would fit my needs.

This PowerShell script collects the drivers (in a nice manufacturer\model\version\arch structure) and copies them to a network share. This makes it possible to use your own Configuration Manager driver import script (or import them manually) or even use them in your MDT configuration.

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A customer wanted to upgrade his current Windows 7 Enterprise devices to Windows 10. Right now he was running SCCM 2012 R2, so before I can start creating a Windows 10 task sequence first there some ConfigMgr upgrading has to be done. I started by downloading the SCCM 1511 bits, Windows ADK 10.0 (not the 1511 version!) and the HP WinPE 10.0 driver pack (since the customer is running HP devices only).

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The Microsoft Intune team is always working on new features and service enhancements. This month they are introducing some new features that allow you to manage apps and devices with a higher level of control:

Block contact sync from Outlook app to device (for iOS): New Mobile Application Management (MAM) controls allow you to prevent a user from syncing Outlook contacts to the native address book on iOS devices, and provide you with the ability to remove contacts that have already been saved to the native address book when you perform a selective wipe of the device.

Conditional Access support for Skype for Business Online: New conditional access policies allow you to restrict access to Skype for Business Online to only managed and compliant iOS and Android devices.

……… but Aaron has put a nice blogpost together over at the /MSDeployment Blog.

“The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2013 Update 1 is now available on the Microsoft Download Center. This update requires the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10, available on the Microsoft Hardware Dev Center. (Scroll to the bottom of the page to the section, “Customize, assess, and deploy Windows on your hardware.” The page also includes other Windows kits; remember for deployment you only need the Windows ADK for Windows 10.)

Significant changes in MDT 2013 Update 1:

Support for the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10

Support for deployment and upgrade of Windows 10

Support for integration with System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager SP1 with the Windows 10 ADK (see this post on the Configuration Manager Team blog for more information on using the Windows 10 ADK with Configuration Manager)

Here is a more detailed list of some specific changes in this release:

Support for new Enterprise LTSB and Education editions of Windows 10

Support for modern app (.appx) dependencies and bundles

Improved support for split image files (.swm)

Switched to using DISM for imaging processes (instead of deprecated ImageX)

Deployment Workbench revisions for deprecated content

Enhanced accessibility within the Deployment Workbench

Revised lists of time zones, regions and languages in the Deployment Wizard